It takes a lot of work to create the extraordinary displays we enjoy on the Fourth of July. Sometimes, the staging alone can take hours of planning for a few minutes’ worth of display—it takes even ...

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took centuries ...

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As dusk sets on the Fourth of July, bursts of light, movement, and color bedazzle America’s skies. Fireworks—thousands of which launch from municipal festivals and backyards each Independence Day—are, ...